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Education  Great importance is attached in Uzbekistan to the issues of population education and health service.
Almost 53 % of the state budget are allocated annually to improvement of the education system in the country. It is anticipated that more than USD 1 million will be expended for implementation of the State Nation-wide Program of School Education Development for 2004 to 2009. Within five years, existing 16 187 various subject classrooms will be fitted out, and 8578 computer classes will be created. It is planned to renovate 700 thousand units of school furniture in 2005 to 2009. The print run of schoolbooks and manuals in the country will reach 62,228,000 pieces by 2009. The Uzbek national model of personnel training covers all the stages of education and upbringing of human from preschool through secondary, vocational, higher education, advanced training and continuing education. Purposeful activity is carried on in the Republic for general and professional training of talented children and youth abroad. Since attaining independence of Uzbekistan, already thousands of young people have been trained in various prestigious programs or received education in respectable universities abroad. Uzbekistan science dates back to very ancient times, has deep and strong roots. Through centres it reliably serves to the entire mankind in perception of mysteries of nature. Great scientists Ahmad Al-Fergani, Abu Rayhan Beruni, Abu Ali ibn Sino, Muhammad Al-Horezmi, Mirzo Ulugbek, which were from the Central Asia, yet in Middle Ages made great contribution in development of the sciences such as astronomy, geography, geology, geophysics, mineralogy, pharmacology, botany, anatomy, human physiology, medicine, chemistry, physics, metaphysics. In the today’s Uzbekistan, the intellectual potential has been formed, which, by its level of development, innovation discoveries, abilities, currently exceeds many developing countries of the world and in many cases is not inferior to the economically developed countries. Today, Uzbekistan is a large cultural scientific center possessing developed research facilities, comprehensive scientific stocks, and skilled personnel. Scientific research sector of the Republic comprises 362 academic, university and industry profile institutes, this includes 101 scientific research institutes, 55 scientific research subdivisions of universities, 65 design engineering organizations, 32 science and production associations and pilot enterprises, 30 information computing centers. At the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, unique scientific centers have been established and successfully carry on researches, such as Nuclear Physics Institute, institutes of genetics and experimental biology, Physics-Sun science-production association, high-level astronomic observatories on Maydanak Mount and others. System of education in the country In Uzbekistan, the State guarantees overall secondary education for all children after reaching certain age. It in the period of 1991 - 1997, the country envisaged only nine-year compulsory education, now the Law On education and National Human Resource Development Program of Uzbekistan also provide for subsequent compulsory three years of vocational or academic education. The prolongation of compulsory education for three years will have the invaluable long-term effect for the country. But it is very important that already today all graduates of the ninth grades without exception are entitled to continue education at the expense of the state up the age of 17-18. The main principles of reforms in education are: -introduction of a compulsory 12 year education, including a 9 year general education and a three-year vocational or academic education as well as the formation of a system of continuing education: from age of 4 or 5 - pre-school education, from 6 or 7 - compulsory nine-year school education,
from 14 or 15 - a three-year academic or vocational pre-college education. Higher education has also become two staged - BA and MA and post higher educational institution - postgraduate and doctoral. Moreover, a system of continuing re-training and upgrading the skills of staff is being formed. Meanwhile, the quality content of education process and curricula are substantially modernised in order to: -bring them maximally closer to the needs of market economy; -revive historical facts, revive the abandoned cultural and spiritual traditions of peoples populating Uzbekistan; -new curricular should take into account the best teaching methodologies that provide high level of requirements towards knowledge of pupils/students, provide the education of graduates on a maximally high professional level for working on a quite full labour market. introduction of a partially paid education: -pre-school - through the establishment of private kindergartens (in parallel with state-owned ones); -school - through establishment of private paid schools accredited in compliance with the current legislation; -higher education - through admitting students on a contractual basis. In total, from 2002 to 2009, this program envisages establishment of 1.374 vocational colleges and 131 academic lyceums with total capacity of more than 920 thousand students.Uzbekistan is open for development of long-term and mutually beneficial cooperation. Legal framework, richest resources, political and economic stability of our country, high education level of population, benevolence and hospitality of Uzbek people create wonderful perspective for foreign investors and development of business in Central Asian region. | 
